Cannot wake up from sleep/suspend/standby

Dude, I got a Dell D600 Latitude laptop (which I upgraded from XP Home SP1 to SP2; only installed Acrobat/MS Office/Cygwin/Vim) that has problems going to sleep/suspend/standby/whatever it's called. Occasionally, either when I close the case or hit Fn-Esc (the suspend key), it refuses to go to sleep. The power indicators (which normally turn off) are on, and the laptop continues to feel warm. But I can do nothing to bring it out of this state short of holding down the power button for it to turn off. The disk indicator is never busy, and there's no signs that the computer is actually responsive (i.e., when I hit Win+E the hard disk light doesn't blink, or when I play a sound, nothing happens...yes I can play stuff in mplayer2 just from the keyboard). Is the system freezing after the screen turns off? What's going on? As usual I have Googled but didn't find anything. Thanks in advance for any help. If you need further info let me know.

This problem can often happen with poorly written drivers or drivers that do not fully support standby. You need to check your BIOS settings, try updating your chipset (motherboard) drivers, and see if any of that helps.

The computer is locking up either when going into the sleep state or coming out of it. It isn't going to be that one of your hardware devices don't support the sleep state because I have a very similar laptop (D800) and it has no problems with Standby. You can check Dell's website for updating the BIOS and drivers

----Nathan McNulty

overbored wrote:> Dude, I got a Dell D600 Latitude laptop (which I upgraded from XP Home SP1 > to SP2; only installed Acrobat/MS Office/Cygwin/Vim) that has problems > going to sleep/suspend/standby/whatever it's called. Occasionally, either > when I close the case or hit Fn-Esc (the suspend key), it refuses to go to > sleep. The power indicators (which normally turn off) are on, and the > laptop continues to feel warm. But I can do nothing to bring it out of this > state short of holding down the power button for it to turn off. The disk > indicator is never busy, and there's no signs that the computer is actually > responsive (i.e., when I hit Win+E the hard disk light doesn't blink, or > when I play a sound, nothing happens...yes I can play stuff in mplayer2 > just from the keyboard). Is the system freezing after the screen turns off? > What's going on? As usual I have Googled but didn't find anything. Thanks > in advance for any help. If you need further info let me know.